The two-week celebration of TV, which this year relocates to the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland, will also include events with the casts of rookie series Orange is the New Black, Masters of Sex, Sleepy Hollow, The Originals (paired with The Vampire Diaries) and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as returning PaleyFest vets Community (back for the fifth time!), Mad Men and the soon-to-conclude How I Met Your Mother.

They join the previously announced Veronica Mars reunion, which kicks off the festival on March 13 (the day before its much-anticipated movie release), and American Horror Story: Coven, whichcloses out the event on March 28.

The full rundown is below (details on which castmembers will be participating will be released in the coming weeks):

Maybe Ginny’s due date makes her and Josh a no show (or they will be working over-time to compensate for her maternity leave before the season wraps) and A&E decided with two series regulars out it’s not worth messing with production for a one day trip to LA to spend an hour talking about who gets into Emma’s tight pants, which I suspect they are sick of answering, particularly since the Twitter War revealed how annoyed the cast and creators are with the OUAT shipping insanity. Just my guess. I am a bit disappointed, though, as it would have been a good stage for the creators and cast to talk about the problem of cyber bullying in this fandom. Too bad. I am at least hoping that Matt with ask about it in an upcoming interview!

This. I’m not too surprised that Once isn’t going to be there. Recent pictures make it look like Ginny is pretty far along, so her due date is probably late March/early April and I think both the cast and fandom need a break from each other after all the ship wars craziness that keeps going on. Plus they have to have to have 9 episodes finished by the end of April so I’m sure that makes filming a little more tighter/stricter.

See? This is what happens when the fandom tries to bully the writers/creators and try to bait them with shipping nonsense. Fun things like Paley get taken away. I’m sure Ginny’s pregnancy played a role as well.

I wouldn’t necessarily say shipping wars played a part in the decision. At the end of the day, ABC execs very likely make the decision about which shows they want to promote at which events. I’m more inclined to believe that too many series regulars and the show runners themselves couldn’t do 2 panels on top of OUAT filming commitments. Ginny’s pregnancy also probably played a role. However, the ship wars are the most annoying aspect of the show. I can’t believe how worked up people get over fictional characters. Sheesh.

Absolutely agreed. I’ve been reading comments on Twitter to Adam, and it’s really annoying how fans are trying to write the show instead of creators. Let them do their awesome and flawless job, and if fans don’t like, they don’t watch and don’t bother these people. They’re getting thousands of tweets daily…
If this is the reason, including ridiculous shipping wars, I’m totally supportive of their decision not to do Paley fest. Go on A&E, you’re both genial. There hasn’t been a better TV series of that kind.

The Mindy Project is fantastic! I was skeptical too, but binge watched season 1 when I was sick and totally feel in love with it! You have to watch all episodes, they really have come into their own and such a great cast of awesome people!!!! EXCITED for Mindy :)

The Lost reunion will probably be fun, I miss seeing some of those people! As for the no OUaT panel, I’m not really surprised. Adam, Eddie and Emilie will probably be with the Lost panel, Ginny and Josh will probably be with the baby (or getting ready for it) so it would just be Jen and the people Emma gets shipped with. Boring. Plus, they’ve been there two years in a row, it might be good to have a break.

I agree with all this. People are throwing a spoiled fit over it like OUAT is entitled to go every year. It doesn’t really NEED the promotion as much as some other shows (which is a good thing, as far as renewal is concerned). Adam & Eddie and Emilie likely will be too busy with the LOST panel (on top of OUAT’s filming schedule). Of course in addition to Jen/Michael/Colin, there would also be Lana and Robert. But they probably felt too many people couldn’t be there so they’d just take a year off.

LOST panel at paleyfest:
question from the audience: “so, what the heck was the island all about??”
carlton cuse: “well, we’ll get to that in a minute.. err, damon?”
lindelof points somewhere: “look, there’s a bright light”
cast & producer leave the stage. audience applauds exstaticly.